ebookman - Seeing all of those beautiful Kayaks really makes me want to pull down the one (an NC Kayak from your parts) hanging up in my garage and go for a paddle. Don't know that I will take the RX1 though. I hear the alligators around here really like expensive cameras.

That sky issue seems to be caused by the overlap of different densities of tone in the sky (not too surprising given the large differences accross the sky with the sun present). Maybe more shots were needed for a finer overlap?

One possible fix (with a little trial and error) is to individually select the darker streaks, one at a time in PS, feather the selections by a lot (and experiment, it may be 50 pixels or more) and then adjust the mid slider in levels until it blends with the rest of the sky (hide selection to make it easier to see how well it blends). I'm sure there are likely other ways but that's how I would fix it.

Tariq Gibran wrote:
That sky issue seems to be caused by the overlap of different densities of tone in the sky (not too surprising given the large differences accross the sky with the sun present). Maybe more shots were needed for a finer overlap?

yup, it happens a lot when the sun is in the frame and so low on the horizon. i'm not sure adding more frames would help much. changing the angle of the lens to the sun tends to produce inconsistent polarizing kind of effects.

Tariq Gibran wrote:
One possible fix (with a little trial and error) is to individually select the darker streaks, one at a time in PS, feather the selections by a lot (and experiment, it may be 50 pixels or more) and then adjust the mid slider in levels until it blends with the rest of the sky (hide selection to make it easier to see how well it blends). I'm sure there are likely other ways but that's how I would fix it.

i'll give that a try, thanks.

Jonas B wrote:
I can see that. May I ask what software you use? I never had those problems with dedicated pano software like PTGui.

EDIT: I like the image four the best (but there are some JPG compression artifacts disturbing the image).

i used PS5.

those artifacts are bugging me too. can't remember if they were there at full size, will have to check.